Ralf Jacobs
Born 12 May 1985, in Waalre, the Netherlands
Lives and works in Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Married
Education
Lorentz Casimir Lyceum, Eindhoven 1996-2003
ROC School voor ICT 2003-2007
Dr. Ir. C.H.F. Velzel Optics Institute 2011-2019
Employment
Optical engineer, sensor developer, 2011 – ∞
Technology Consultant at Settels Savenije
Expositions
Stroom festival, Nijmegen, the Netherlands – www.stroomfestival.com
Performance Laser Cyanotype Harmonograms, 5 June 2024
PODD, electronic music event, The Grey Space In the Middle, The Hague, the Netherlands.
Performance Laser Cyanotype Harmonograms, 27 March 2024
Imaginairy, travelling exhibition on the power and beauty of Mathematics
Eindhoven University of Technology, Atlas building, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
From 14 February to 2 March 2023
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands
Group exposition ‘Coding: craft of the 21st-century’
Laser projection and Laser Cyanotype Harmonograms
From 22 January to 17 July 2023
Dutch Design Week 2022 – Eindhoven 2022
Fashion Tech Farm, Laser Cyanotype Harmonograms on textile in collaboration with Enrico Taroni
Gast’Art gallery, Amsterdam 2022 – ∞
Laser cyanotype harmonograms
Summerschool with Jonas Ohlson, Cobra Museum Amstelveen july 2022
Group exhibition, painting, drawing and collage
Albert van Abbehuis, Benefiet voor Brabant, Eindhoven, the Netherlands january 2022
Group exhibition, laser cyanotype harmonograms
Dutch Design Week 2021, Eindhoven, the Netherlands october 2021
Gallery Philippa Horgan, solo expo
Revela’t Festival 2021, Vilassar de Dalt, Spain september 2021
Two day performance during photography festival
Extrapool, Opaque Mirrors, Nijmegen, the Netherlands march 2021
Group exhibition, laser cyanotype harmonograms
Dutch Design Week 2020, Eindhoven, the Netherlands october 2020
Gallery Philippa Horgan, solo expo
Textiellab, Textielmuseum, Tilburg, the Netherlands 2016
Development of 3D knitted curtain that contains solar panels
In permanent exhibition
Mode @ MOTI, Museum of the Image, Breda, the Netherlands 2013
Presentation about the future of fashion and technology, with Pauline van Dongen
NFTs
Foundation.app april 2022
https://foundation.app/@ralfjacobs
Publications
Contemporary Art Issue, December 2023 – How Ralf Jacobs’ works on paper become contemporary relics.
https://www.contemporaryartissue.com/how-ralf-jacobss-works-on-paper-become-contemporary-relics/
Magpies Magazine, December 2023, Drawing with light, interview.
https://magpiesmagazine.com/2023/12/22/drawing-with-light-an-interview-with-ralf-jacobs/
Vetro Editions, Berlin. “Tracing the Line: the art of drawing machines and pen plotters”. release late 2023 https://vetroeditions.com/products/tracing-the-line
November 2022, Harvard Business Review, illustration for From Prediction To Transformation
https://hbr.org/2022/11/from-prediction-to-transformation
March 2022, Noema magazine, illustration for The ladder, the sphere and the rhizome.
https://www.noemamag.com/the-ladder-the-sphere-and-the-rhizome/
November 2021, Yorokobu magazine, Spain
November 2020, Financieel Dagblad, accesoiry magazine on interior design
June 2016, Youtube, Het zonnedoek ontwikkeld met Inside Outside in het TextielLab van het TextielMuseum,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okecfq3WFOA
Collected
In private collections, world wide.
In Museum CODA, Apeldoorn
Socials
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/raaaaaaaaaalf/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/raaalf/
Email ralfjacobs@gmail.com
Linktree https://linktr.ee/ralfjacobs
